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SWIMMING EVENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does swimming event mean?
• SWIMMING EVENT (noun)
The noun SWIMMING EVENT has 1 sense:
1. an athletic competition that involves swimming
Familiarity information: SWIMMING EVENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An athletic competition that involves swimming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("swimming event" is a kind of...):
match (a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete)
Holonyms ("swimming event" is a part of...):
swim meet; swimming meet (a swimming competition between two or more teams)
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